ngl this press conference makes me feel a little ill as a researcher in this area

lets go birds

anyone else having trouble purchasing neuropixels due to their terms of service??

ADD YOUR THOUGHTS ON LIMITING STUDENT VISA TO FOUR YEARS Comment period ends September 29th www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... 1/2

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity PSA! 🚨 🗓️ UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program applications are due Nov. 1 (ppfp.ucop.edu/info/) Open to anyone interested in a postdoc & academic career at a UC campus. I'm happy to sponsor an applicant if there’s a good fit— please reach out!

Live your life in such a way that you never end up the target of Ta-Nehishi Coates’ pen. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

happy Mexican Independence Day!

Today, Sept 16 is Mexican Independence Day! 🇲🇽 In 1810, priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla started a popular revolt against the Spanish in a call to arms in the town of Dolores.

come thru, sunday 9-11 am!

The Snell lab is seeking a Postbaccalaureate researcher and Postdoctoral associate to join our team. More details here: www.snelllab.org/contact-2

🚨 Excited to share the latest preprint form the lab ➡️https://tinyurl.com/32d3be9f Here we tackle a long-standing chicken-or-egg 🐣🥚question in #autism and developmental neuroscience ➡️ Is excitation–inhibition (E:I) imbalance a "cause" or a "consequence" of #autism? Check out what we found! 🧵1/n

Congrats to Dr. Christian Cazares (KIBM) & Dr. Eddy Albarran (KIBS) on being named 2025 Henry Grass Rising Stars in Neuroscience Awardees! Advancing discovery + mentoring future leaders. @grassfoundation.bsky.social @colorsofthebrain.bsky.social @fleabrained.bsky.social @albarran.bsky.social

BREAKING: The Supreme Court — over the objection of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson — allows the Trump administration’s racial profiling of people working certain types of jobs in its immigration raids during litigation.

Never writing two different grants with same submission deadline again...like at least a day difference would've helped with the coordinating, fingers crossed for this Simons and AHA grants !

BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social

Neurociencias Para Todos brings neuroscience education to remote communities in Mexico. @analog-ashley.bsky.social‬ talked with founder Monica López-Hidalgo about the program’s efforts and the importance of making neuroscience accessible to all. www.thetransmitter.org/community/br...

Ok so does anyone know anything about the NSF GRFP? Has anyone made any statement? Grad students keep telling me they’re writing it and I’m like discouraging them from spending time on this…. But do we have any actual information?

NEW: Don't ask too many questions, but... NIH may not re-terminate the 900ish grants at issue in the main NIH lawsuits after all. To the PIs of reinstated grants, SPEND NOW! 🧵 Here's what NIH is probably thinking. Bear with me:

insane we get to work here

me taking months to set up full NIST-compliant environments (UCSD is insanely backed up) when the gov just leaks all our info for free anyway

The US President has ordered the creation of ”specialized” military units to “quell civil disturbances” in all 50 of our states. Military units under his personal control. Deployed across our homeland, in peacetime. Little time is left to stop this insanity.

I think a really shitty thing about losing the K00 again is that Brad and I didnt apply to bridge funds because I had already received the reversal notice from Judge Young's ruling, and we felt it would be shitty taking it from people that would need it, then a few weeks later this happens haha

"DEI-linked grants" can be cancelled by a new administration = if you are a marginalized scientist we can and will just destroy your life's work / and if anyone's work dares to care about specific inequities in our society, we can and will destroy it thehill.com/regulation/c...

Throughout this whole saga, I’ve felt the collective agony of being in constant contact with other MOSAIC scholars facing the same shitty fate. I don’t want to downplay the deep solidarity/support, but what I feel most acutely is the wave of grief crashing over hundreds of early-career scientists.

JUST IN: But the court, in its emergency docket order, also left in place by a 5-4 order a lower court ruling that threw out NIH memos that enforced the administration's policies.

How the fuck am I supposed to plan my lab finances if my grants keep getting terminated and reinstated and terminated again? End rant.

my DSPAN postdoc grant right now

5-4 Supreme Court rules that NIH can terminate grants pending the full ruling. thehill.com/regulation/c... I have no (printable) words...

saw this coming a mile away, again

I've updated my literature review of studies of aperiodic neural activity in clinical disorders, adding ~30 papers, taking it to 177 reports across 38 disorders! It's got a review of results so far, discussion of themes & issues, & recommendations for future work! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

We'll be having our 3rd annual MINDS Symposium this August 29th, 1-5 pm Bonner Hall 2130! The CoB scholars will highlight their research, along with a keynote from Dr. Anne Beatty-Martinez from UCSD, special thanks to @ibroorg.bsky.social for supporting Aisha Cinar and Sasha Bikkina this summer!

to the PIs, is it advisable going on job market this fall when things are seemingly falling apart, or riding the postdoc wave for longer (while funding lasts) for some semblance of stability?

I look up a ton to Dr. Trejo, check out her interview, people like her give me hope that this career path, while difficult, is possible for those from low-income backgrounds www.nature.com/articles/d41...

a seemingly general electrophysiological phenomenon: once you have to process stimuli, low-frequency rhythms disappear, spectrum becomes flatter & sometimes an increase in broadband gamma activity. we also found this for visual memory encoding in #iEEG data: doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2404-24.2025

NIH typically releases the names of scientists on the committees that review grant applications but has not done so for the new $50M autism research initiative. HHS didn't answer my question about who will make the final selections for the new grants and why it hasn't made this info public

Proud to announce that I received the Henry Grass Rising Stars in Neuroscience Award! I strongly believe that neuroscience has much to learn from the social sciences about ensuring our workforce represents the communities we serve. Honored to continue this tradition! @grassfoundation.bsky.social

one of the subtle ways funding cuts are destroying science training is the lack of labs that have future full-time space for rotating students, making money the #1 factor for what lab they join at such an early stage is so grim

My NIA PO said they have “closed the books” on this fiscal year. So my 10% scored Alzheimer’s R01 goes back into the lottery 😭 (I resubmitted it).

NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning. Please take care when watching.

The paper highlights actionable steps to help improve these double standards, including more RESEARCH RELATED LANGUAGE in P &T letters for Black, Hispanic and Indigenous women to improve their outcomes.

UCSD is holding a town hall with @repscottpeters.bsky.social this Wednesday to urge him to oppose proposed research funding cuts in the FY2026 budget, set for a vote in September. Please RSVP below and share widely. Everyone is welcome. form.laborbase.org/251675765832...

i walked into an open mic comedy night when i was just trying to go to a chill brewery and ive never been more grateful for my ability to dissociate

Oh good. We've reached the "I don't have to be faster than the bear, I only have to be less woke than you" stage of faculty solidarity. archive.is/wGNDr

This Thursday August 21st, from 4:00- 5:00 PM (Bonner Hall, 2130), CaSAS will feature Isabel Mejia (PhD Candidate, UCSD), Paula Avila, M.D. (Postdoctoral Scholar, UCSD), and Manuel Sanchez Alavez, PhD (Senior Staff Scientist, Scripps Institute; Professor, UABC)!

Proud of Najja Gandy, a STARTneuro student who has been working with me in the Voytek lab this past year on identifying EEG-based measures that correlate with cognitive-behavioral measures in Rett Syndrome patients!

FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...

Applications are open for our Diversity Mentorship Program! This program is open to undergraduates or recent graduates, anywhere in the world, who are interested in graduate studies in psychology. Apply here by Aug 25: psych.ubc.ca/diversity

Re-applying to STEM grad programs? Thinking about how to strengthen your application for the next cycle? Check out this wisdom from Yessica Santana on what you might not have known last time & how to improve!🌟💯 🔗 cientificolatino.com/post/yessica...

The order to restore grants applies to 300 NSF grants, not the NIH grant suspensions

I got to share a bit about Indigenous values in chemistry on this pod! Thanks @nature for the feature and joining some an amazing list of ChangeMakers!